{"id":22346,"date":"2011-06-02T09:11:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T16:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=12443"},"modified":"2016-09-17T14:26:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T11:26:38","slug":"well-that-was-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/well-that-was-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, That was Early!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The alarm rang at 4:55 this morning. Thankfully, I wasn&#8217;t in the middle of a REM cycle, so it was easy to bounce out of bed, have breakfast, and get on the road for 5:15.<\/p>\n<p>The first part of the day was flagging, which meant I had to keep the lady I&#8217;m working for alive while she laid traffic-counting hoses across a busy highway and nailed them into the pavement. At that hour there wasn&#8217;t much traffic, but I felt very powerful standing in there in my safety-yellow cover all and SLOW sign. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12444\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/yellowHIVIScoverall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12444\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12444\" title=\"yellowHIVIScoverall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/yellowHIVIScoverall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I had to wear a cute outfit like this one this morning (image from textileinnovations.com)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After, she treated me to breakfast, then I counted cars for two hours. Tonight, I&#8217;ll be doing the reverse, starting at 4PM.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I need to work on a translation contract then go deliver some fliers. After counting, I&#8217;ll try to deliver some phone books. I can&#8217;t believe how little income I have for how busy I am!<\/p>\n<p>But the phone rang this morning and suddenly things are looking up&#8230; It&#8217;s way too soon to get excited, but it makes me feel optimistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alarm rang at 4:55 this morning. Thankfully, I wasn&#8217;t in the middle of a REM cycle, so it was easy to bounce out of bed, have breakfast, and get on the road for 5:15. The first part of the day was flagging, which meant I had to keep the lady I&#8217;m working for alive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,632,1226,635,5,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-canada","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}